A GOOD Samaritan who saved the life of a Teesside heart attack victim said today: “I was just glad to help.”

As revealed in the Evening Gazette yesterday, Kenny Callaghan, 56, launched a search for the heroic taxi driver - whose identity was a mystery - after he rushed him to hospital when he collapsed on his doorstep.

After yesterday’s story the Gazette received a string of calls identifying the modest cabbie as 41-year-old Sean Massey.

The Middlesbrough father-of-two, who refused any payment after taking Kenny and his partner Carol Read, 54, to James Cook University Hospital, said he did only what anyone would do under the circumstances.

Sean, who made the life-saving high speed dash on Monday, said he was in Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, when he spotted Kenny.

Sean said: “It was just a fella, he was on the side of the road holding his chest. He just looked ill.

“I just pulled up and asked him if he was all right. He asked me to take him home.

“Because he looked that bad I didn’t want to take him home. I wanted to take him straight to hospital, but he wanted to go and see his partner.

“I dropped him at home but I just stayed looking to make sure he was all right. As he got to his house doorstep he just collapsed.”

Sean, of Fulbeck Road, Netherfields, helped Kenny and Carol into his taxi and raced him to hospital.

When Carol asked Sean what they owed him, he refused to take any money.

Sean, who is married to Julie, 34, with children Charley, eight, and three-year-old Ethan, said: “I said it doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t have contemplated taking any money.

“I’m glad I’ve done something to help him but it’s just natural for people. Anyone in their right mind would have done something like that. If they had seen him they would have pulled over, I would have thought.

“I wouldn’t say I’ve done anything. I was quite shocked when someone told me I was in the paper.

“A friend of mine, a fellow taxi driver, phoned me up. I was in the middle of Albert Park lake with my two kids rowing. I thought he was winding me up.

“I hadn’t even thought about it until now. It’s just nice to be helpful to someone. It’s nice to be nice.”